Bleeding Green wrote:Siakam has taken a bit of a step back the last two years, especially since March of last year when everything in this world got all **** up, but he's taken on like 50% more offensive workload. I think he'll come back just fine next year. I don't think you trade a player like that unless you get a king's ransom in return.
I was unimpressed by Siakam in the 2019 playoffs. He played particularly poorly against the Sixers from what I remember; I felt like the Raps made it to the Finals in spite of him, although i know he had a good season...
Because I didn't watch every game, I'll just pull up the game log and point out that against the Sixers and Bucks, he had 9-25, 2-10, 6-20, and 5-15 shooting performances. Against the Ws, 5-18 in game 2, 6-14 in game 4, 6-16 in game 5. He turns chucker too easily, he is inconsistent as a shooter and scorer if also nothing too special in that regard, he doesn't rebound real well...his game is based somewhat on intensity, but by the playoffs, like Jae Crowder perhaps he is tired, and in the playoffs opponents step their intensity up and it neutralizes his game somewhat.
Not saying he's a bad player or that he wasn't a great draft pick, but IMO he is far from the max player he gets paid like.
